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Show the Series of Tests on TuberculosisStudies With B. C. G Cultures Show Them to Be Quite Valueless. Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) A series of experiments with guinea pigs, chickens, rabbits, and cattle to test the yalce of a method for producing Immunity against tuberculosis has yielded negative results, the bureau of animal industry of the United States : Department of Agriculture announces. The method under Investigation Involved the use of a culture of Bacillus Calmette-Gueriobtained in 1924 from the Pasteur institute, Paris. The organism, originally cultured from a bovine tuberculous lesion. Is claimed to confer considerable immunity against tuberculosis in the body of animals vaccinated with the B. CL 6. culture, as It Is commonly called. Director cf. Experiments. The bureaus experiments were directed by the late Dr. E. C. Schroeder, 'Superintendent of the United States experiment station, Bethesda, ML. and were largely concluded prior to hi3 death In 132S. His colleague in the experiment was Dr. A. B. Crawford, of n -- the same station. Extensive public interest in eradicating tuberculosis from live stock makes the investigation of a proposed new method for combating tuberculosis of . unusual interest. Though highly technical, the essential conclusions and summary of the tests are briefly as follows: Vaccination of guinea pigs with RCG. conferred on them a slight resistance to tiie spread of tuberculosis, but not a true Immunity as shown by the fact that practically all so treated died of tuberculosis and that the generalization of the disease was merely delayed. Experiments with cattle showed B. CL G. to be of a mammalian tubercle bacillus of very low virulence. Cattle vaccinated with the product and later exposed to ordinary tubercle bacilli readily contracted tuberculosis. No Immunity Manifested. Exposure was made by several methods, including intravenous injection, subcutaneous injection, feeding, and contact with known tuberculous animals. In general the vaccinated cattle showed less extensive lesions of tuberculosis than un vaccinated control cat-tiIn no group was there manifest an immunity, as measured by the prevention of infection. According to the conclusions of Doctors Schroeder and Crawford, the vaccination of cattle with B. CL G. lias no value as a means of eradicating tuberculosis in live stock. e. Farmer Should Consider Mured Feeds for Dairy Farmers requirements for feed need confined to the cereal grains as such. Mixed and their .feeds of standard quality varying In protein content are available everywhere and these should always be considered In buying. A farmer may have corn and 'find it difficult to buy oats except In carload lots. He could ' bay the necessary amount of a 24 per .cent protein mixed feed to meet his requlremeatoy mixing it with ground corn in the correct proportion for a mixture suitable to the roughage fed. A farmer may have corn, oats and 'barley and plenty of legume hay and silage. His need is for protein and for variety In the concentrates mixtures. A 32 per cent protein mixed feed yielding about 23 per cent of ,not be the protein would go well with home-grow- n grains. - turns mrni fashes Keeping Records cn the Poultry Busmen Best former operations. This years work should put the bark beetle menace within the national forest safely under control. In many localities beetles have destroyed more timber been destroyed by fire, than and represent a problem which must be met equally with fire conhe trol in forest administration, states. Southern Wyoming has witnessed a particularly severe winter, from Many farmers feel that poultry keeping L just a side line to be watched over and cared for by the wcrnen on the farm and as a consequence they pay very little attention to keeping an account of the income and expenditures Involved ia the management of the poultry flock. Often ibis condition exists even though the flock may be getting the best of care and may be receiving a very ration. Such a feeling not exist, however. Pool! ifoc-k- are one of the biz sources of farm income. Furthermore. they furnish, under proper management, a very steady income from week to week through out the 12 Hilson Guier Is Only Boy to months of the year. It would be an Own and Officially Test easy matter to keep a record of this income, and in many instances this Is His Cow. done. Too often the poultry flock bookkeeping ceases with the record of the ( Naturally. I am the happiest boy income and does not take Intc account In the world. declared HUsop Guier. the cost of keeping the flock. of Farmington. Kj when he received the official figures which showed that his Jersey cow has broken the world record for production in her class. Two years ago Hilson was just one of the hundreds of thirteen-year-ol- d attending public school it westSupervisor A. U. Nord of th? boys ern Kentucky. Shoving and poshing Ashley National Forest returned to In line, tripping the fellers as they Vernal Wednesday alter about three marched up to the teachers desk, weeks business trip to Ogden and to his gang in its strenuous acloyal other Utah points, and to Mt. View, tivities and giving praise In Wyoming, the present headquarfor every holiday, Hilson ters of the Lonetree ranger dis- was yells one of the reasons why just well-balanc- ed s Kentucky Youth Is Best Tester Many Improvements To be Made by Forest Service This Season ear-spl.i.-tf- ag trict. While in Ogden Mr. Nord met with forest officials of the district office on financial allotment matters and reports that the Ashley forest will be very favorably considered this year. The road items which were approved, in addition to funds for the maintenance of all projects, include the completion of the Lake Fork mountain road in Duchesne county amounting to $8700.00; the Fish Lake and Spirit Lake motor ways in Daggett county, $1200. There will be some betterment work dome on the VernaJ-Mani- la road. A tractor, grader and other road equipment will be provided and this outfit together with a small crew, will be engaged during the entire season on maintenance and construction work. Approximately $10,000 will be used for the purchase of equipment and for the work contemplated this states. he year, According to Mr. Nord a preliminary survey of a forest development road into one of the drainages above the Ft. Bridger valley settlement in Wyoming will be made during the year by a member of thq engineering force, in further development of the forest road plan for fire protection and for the opening up of the timber resources of the national forest to the dependent communities. Other improvements planned include the reconstruction of the Elk-hor- n ranger station dwelling, development of the Wild Bill administrative site, development of sanitary improvements at the following prominent public camping grounds: Morris Lake on the east fork of Smiths Fork and Henrys Fork Park, Wyo.. Carter Creek, Trout Creek Park, Moon Lake and Uintah river and miscellaneous improvements at ranger district headquarters. Two email bark beetle control operations will also be conducted this spring, one on Henrys Fork In Summitt county and the other north of Manila in Daggett county, as a farther cleanup of the infestation which could not he found in all repots according to Mr. Nord. There has been an unusual amount of snow and the feeding season for all livestock has been particularly range situation long. The winter was particularly unfavorable. However,, the emergency seems to bars been met through supplemental and with few exceptions, the herds have been pulled through without serious losses under the circumstances. pounds of nJk in her ffic-- al Uinhy test. job to do official The daily weightesting. production record Leaping, the milk, the of ing the attention to feeding, and the necessity of sticking to this routine day after day might well defer any schoolboy. Yet. Inexperienced as he was. Hilson Guier, calf dub boy, now in the first year high school, was able to set a new standard for the world with his one Jersey cow. There was no record of high performance In the pedigree of Proud Princes May ; there was no certain reward for the job be had started, but be stuck to it. He bad confidence In the heifer be bad purchased, but he did not dream that his cow would break a worlds record under the most ordinary farm conditions. Record Being Broken. In the second month of her test Proud Princes May produced S3J39 pounds of butterfat, a yield more than half the average yearly production Its a roan-siz- e Hilson Guier and His Jersey, Proud Princes May. week. Then teachers favor the five-daCounty Agricultural Agent P. EL Wilson started a dairy calf club for boys and girls in Calloway county and Hilson became one of the 33.154 members of such dubs sponsored throughout the nation t the United States Department of Agriculture. Only Boy to Own Champion. per cow in the United States. In the fifth month Mays total was 93-0-7 pounds of butterfat, and the public began to realize that a world record vas being by an unknown cow care under the of a lively school Then Guier the farm became a boy. mecca for lovers of good dairy cattle. At the end of 305 days when the Now, at fifteen, Hilson Guier Is entire test had been officially checked the only calf dub boy in the United by the supervisors and accepted by States to own and officially test a the unerican Jersey Cattle dub, the world champion cow. The calf which national organization of Jersey breedhe rureasJ two years ago witn his ers, this Kentucky boy knew that his first $150 In savings lias finished her $150 calf dub heifer had become the test and she Is the highest producing highest producing Jersey in the world d senior Jersey on rec- In her age dass. By virtue of the ord, tested for 305 days. Proud accomplishment Cf his cow, Hilson Princes May, his cow, produced Guier has earned a place among the 734-01 pounds of butterfat and 12.624 most renouned cattle men of the day. y three-year-ol- Pick ( LUSTY BULL For PrcEt-They e builders of Beef R. S. LUSTY & SONS, C: |